186: Chapter 186 The Mountain-Shaking Kui Niu

The night was like a thick lead curtain hanging over the sky in the heart of Mang Mountain.

Gu Shen moved quietly along the rugged mountain path.

The lingering scent of the Demon-Attracting Incense in the surrounding air grew increasingly intense; if a Mortal were to smell this strange fragrance, they would surely become dizzy, but Gu Shen felt no discomfort at all.

The Nirvana Star Core within his body rotated slowly in tandem with his Bone Refining Art, which he had just reached the third level, granting him a formidable physique capable of resisting Magic Treasure and pushing his body's resistance to external toxic miasma and hallucinogenic incense to its Peak.

The surrounding mountain forest exuded a suffocating deathly silence.

Even the faintest chirping of insects and birds had vanished, as if the entire mountain range was trembling in fear under the fierce might of some colossal creature.

"Thump—"

Suddenly, a dull, extremely heavy sound came from deep beneath the hard bedrock under his feet.

The sound was very far away at first, but in an instant, it reached his eardrums like the beating of a heavy hammer on a drum.

Gu Shen's figure faltered slightly, then he planted himself firmly on the edge of a towering cliff, looking down at the vast basin below.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

The tremors became increasingly intense, and the towering ancient trees in the center of the basin toppled over in swathes to both sides.

A visible, earthy-yellow wave of air bulldozed across the ground, ruthlessly flattening every obstacle in its path.

"Master, a high-intensity seismic wave has been detected!"

The Crab's standalone computing module at his collar was running at full capacity, and its mechanical electronic voice conducted rapidly along Gu Shen's collarbone, "The source of the tremor is advancing toward our location at high speed. The frequency of this physical oscillation is extremely strange and has already entered deep resonance with the surrounding geological magnetic field."

Gu Shen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he pushed his vision to its limit.

At the end of his vision, deep within the forest that had been violently flattened, a primordial giant beast, massive as a mountain, suddenly crashed into view.

It was a terrifying Yao Race creature in the shape of a giant ox.

Its body was dozens of zhang long, covered entirely in thick, blue-black fur.

It had no horns on its head, only a single eye as large as a lantern, and as its giant mouth opened and closed, it exhaled ghastly white, turbid air.

Its most terrifying feature was the single leg beneath its belly, thick as a pillar of heaven.

Every time that single leg landed, the earth veins for several miles around would tremble, causing rocks to shatter into the clouds and the earth to shake.

"A Second-Stage Peak Great Yao, the Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox."

Gu Shen had seen illustrations of this exotic species in the appendix of the Strange Records of the Great Marsh Flora and Fauna.

It was rumored that this beast carried a trace of an extremely thin ancient Thunder God Bloodline and was violent by nature; its innate Divine Ability could trigger resonance in the earth veins, capable of splitting rocks and piercing metal.

At this moment, the Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox appeared as if it had gone mad.

Its massive body was crisscrossed with dozens of huge, bone-deep wounds.

The edges of several of these wounds retained traces of crimson fire poison and deep blue frost, clearly the marks left by high-level Magic Treasure of the Human Race.

Scalding Yao blood spilled from the wounds like a waterfall, landing on the soil below and instantly corroding the ground into charred pits.

"Roar—"

The Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox suddenly stomped its single leg, raised its head, and let out a heaven-shaking roar.

This roar was not an ordinary beast cry.

The sound waves turned into circles of tangible, grayish-white ripples, sweeping out in all directions with a destructive force.

A hundred zhang away, a First-Stage Peak Rock Python, which had been lurking in a rock crevice trying to scavenge, was hit head-on by these grayish-white sound wave ripples.

The Rock Python didn't even have a chance to struggle; its iron-hard scales remained undamaged, but its massive body suddenly stiffened, and a large amount of thick blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed instantly from its mouth and nose, before it collapsed limply to the ground, dead on the spot.

Witnessing this, Gu Shen's expression suddenly darkened.

He clearly perceived that the sound waves contained a strange, pervasive force field.

"Master, that is the biological manifestation of an infrasonic weapon!"

The Crab's electronic voice was filled with undisguised fear, "This creature's vocal cord structure is a natural resonance amplifier. The sound wave frequency it emits precisely matches the natural frequency of the organs within a living being. That serpentine creature from just now—although its outer armor could resist physical piercing, its internal organs instantly turned into a pool of blood under the same-frequency resonance!"

Gu Shen placed his hand on the scabbard at his waist, and the Cold Jade Thunder Bone beneath his flesh let out a low hum, discharging the incoming residual shockwaves entirely into the bedrock beneath his feet.

"What a formidable innate Divine Ability."

Gu Shen's mind continued to deduce, his thoughts moving like lightning, "This Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox's method of attack seems to specifically counter Puppet creations. While the Demon Bone Iron Guard's titanium-tungsten alloy armor is indestructible, its internal fusion batteries and Formation-pattern circuits are also precision components. If encountered with such infrasonic resonance, the outer armor would certainly be preserved, but the internal mechanical core would likely short-circuit and collapse due to resonance."

All things in heaven and earth have their mutual generation and restriction.

Facing this kind of Yao Race Divine Ability that strikes directly at the resonant frequency of material molecules, it is not only Puppet creations that reveal their most fatal weakness.

Even Cultivators, if caught off guard, are highly susceptible to being hit; at best, their magic power and true essence would be thrown into chaos, causing immediate injury, and at worst, their Divine Sense and mental faculties would be damaged, harming their Origin.

No wonder this Beast Taming Sect would go to such great lengths and set up an inescapable net to hunt it down.

If they could skin and butcher this beast, and use its tendons, bones, and flesh to refine sonic-type Magical Artifacts and Magic Treasure, they would certainly gain an absolute advantage in battles against those of the same rank.

Below in the canyon, the rampage of the Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox continued.

It panted heavily, its giant single eye filled with despair.

Beneath its massive, mountain-like belly, there was actually a young Kui Ox, only a zhang in length with a weak aura, cowering.

The young beast trembled, clinging tightly to the adult Kui Ox's single leg, crying out incessantly.

A mother beast protecting its cub is instinct.

This Second-Stage Peak Great Yao had clearly been pushed into a true desperate situation, hence it was recklessly burning its life essence in an attempt to carve out a bloody path.

"Hum—"

In the night sky, a sudden change occurred.

Above the Nine Heavens, dozens of dazzling rays of Formation light lit up simultaneously.

These rays of light intertwined, forming a massive star-light net covering a radius of ten miles, which descended from above to envelop the Kui Ox.

On the light net, stars dotted the surface.

At every Formation node, a Cultivator wearing star-patterned Daoist robes sat cross-legged in mid-air.

Each held a bronze Formation Flag in their hands, and as the flags swayed, heavy Spiritual Pressure poured down like a landslide or tsunami.

The Beast Taming Sect's suppression army Formation finally revealed its stern fangs.

"Wretched beast, having entered my sect's Nine-Star Spirit-Binding Formation, do you still wish to struggle and escape?"

A clear, gentle, yet infinitely indifferent voice slowly emanated from the Formation node at the very top.

A young Cultivator in snow-white robes was seen standing in the clouds with his hands behind his back, stepping on a Flying Sword that shimmered with flowing light.

His body was surrounded by the thick Spiritual Pressure of a Foundation Establishment Initial Stage Peak, his robes fluttering, appearing like an immortal descended to the Mortal world.

The elites of the Beast Taming Sect, exuding fierce and malevolent auras, looked at this person with eyes full of awe and fanaticism.

Gu Shen hid in the shadows, his eyes locked tightly on the white-robed youth, his AI Crystal running at full power, imprinting all the characteristics of his aura into his Sea of Consciousness.

The great net tightened, the starry light screen like a natural chasm, trapping the Mountain-Quaking Kui Ox firmly in the center of the basin.

This final, desperate battle of the trapped beast was now unavoidable.